Minnesota Birth is Live

Gail’s new website, MinnesotaBirth.com is live and growing. A referral source for birth and pregnancy related services and products in Minnesota. Word of mouth referral is key here. Not meant to be a corporate site, this is a friendly, grass roots info site for birthing in Minnesota. Its just developing, so be patient. Send your […]

Birth Centers in Minnesota

Read the health care article in the Minneapolis Tribune, called DFLers vow to fight for health care aid. Senator Linda Berglin, D, has shared her Birth Center bill wording with Minnesota Better Birth Coalition lead, Susan Lane. Susan then showed us Trillium midwives who have been attending the coalition meetings. Susan in fact, had showed […]

Inversion after baby flips?

Several women have emailed in asking what they should do after their breech babies flipped to head down. At this time, I recommend continuing to do a short, 30-second inversion on most days. Here is Chiropractor and Craniosacral Therapist, Carol Phillips helping a mother do an inversion and an inset to show the uterus hanging […]

British "Green Guru" says Abortion is green…

Responsible parenting, responsible child bearing, yes. But the the timing of taking responsibility is of crucial importance. What is our response-ability to our reproduction? Proactive or reactive? Health promotion or scramble to return to the male-model of normalcy (which, in this case, is not to be carrying an embryo). Where is the discussion about holistic […]

Are Certified Professional Midwives properly trained?

The statistics for Certified Professional Midwives, CPMs, are excellent in comparison to Certified Nurse Midwives, CNMs, who also have superior statistics. And all midwives have excellent statistics compared to physicians when each profession helps low risk women. Direct entry midwives prepare for a test by either apprenticeship or by a nationally recognized college. Before qualifying […]

The ethics of intuition

Clare and I were talking today at Kat Man Do on Grand in St. Paul (eat there, its spicy and delicious!). When a mother calls me to help with her birth, I occasionally get a premonition of how it will go. Not in detail, but enough. It might be a split second view or a […]

March 9th March

Better Birth. Lower Cost. Join the Minnesota Better Birth Coalition Facebook group. We’ll be marching to our state Capitol by noon on Monday, March 9th, 2009 with signs and strollers and slings. Several birth, postpartum, and early parenting groups are united for bringing about cost saving legislation that will improve birth outcomes for mothers and […]

Riverview

My comadres are at the Riverview watching the inauguration on the big theater screen. My comadres are my two midwife partners, Emme Corbeil, CPM and Clare Welter, CNM. Emme took this photo of the full house at Riverview. I’m home working on a new and upcoming website, MinnesotaBirth.com (not on line yet), and waiting for […]

Happy New Year with Orgasmic Birth!

20/20 started the New Year right with Debra Pascali Bonaro presenting Orgasmic Birth. I hope the benefits to the nation are as great as they have been locally since Debra was here on Sept. 25, 08 to present her film at the Riverview Theater to a very nearly full house. Congratulations to 20/20 for getting […]

Christmas Day – One year later

Reflecting back on December, one year after the death of my niece from brain cancer. I had expected to spend 2,3,4 days a week with my sister this month. Last year I was with her every day, but one, in the month of December as we cared for her daughter, in their home, until her […]

All together

Marion was the doula for a lovely couple having their first baby. I’m hoping they tell their story on the Spinning Babies Website. I’d gotten to meet them when their baby was still breech -he spontaneously flipped head down at 37 weeks gestation. Not surprisingly, he went on to labor in a posterior position. More […]

Midwifery Now!

Midwifery Now! is a Minnesota midwifery 501C3 Organization listed in our state’s midwifery statute as the agency responsible for submitting potential members to the Midwifery Advisory Board to the MN Board of Medical Practitioners. We started MNow! in about 1998 as part of our legislative action. May 5, 1999 the Traditional Midwives bill was passed. […]